Orthodontic Interdisciplinary Seminar I

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Pre -requisites: ORTO 9101 to ORTO 9107. This course is designed to train the Orthodontic graduate residents in the diagnosis, treatment planning, and clinical management of patients undergoing orthognathic or craniofacial surgery. A broad variety of lectures covering the most important aspects of surgical orthodontics including its multi-disciplinary management will be presented. Readings will be assigned for each lecture and the residents will actively participate during the presentation. Seminars and interdisciplinary staffing concerning congen ital malformations of the jaw with particular emphasis placed on congenital clefts of the lip and palate, craniofacial syndromes and orthognathic surgery cases will be presented. The embryology, etiology and morphology of congenital facial malformations will be discussed. Post -natal growth problems and associated complications in respiration, deglutition, mastication and speech will be studied. Longitudinal growth studies will be presented revealing growth, developmental and functional changes. Treatment mo dalities and outcomes will be critically evaluated.